BEX Wolfe
Outreach & Events LeadRebecca is imagining biodiverse futures from a place of hope and urgency
green FUTURESDISTRICT 1
ABOUT REBECCA
Rebecca is excited about nature, curiosity, and people being together in meaningful ways. She likes taking walks to nowhere in particular, talking to plants, painting pictures of food, and thinking about how we could make a better world together. A sociologist by training and by nature, she is always curious about how we collectively shape and make the world we live in.
INTERESTSScience Communication, Sociology, Research, Podcasting, Zine Making
VISIONA more connected city where you know your neighbors; the ones in your apartment building, the ones a few streets over, the ones that are humans and the ones that are trees, birds, and coyotes.
The Stewardship Sandbox
Collectively Mapping District 1’s Biodiverse Future
In a large and complex city that is often dominated by digital technology, it is easy to feel removed from our ecological systems and alone in finding solutions. This activation puts people in conversation where they define the ecological issues they care about and regain a sense of hope and agency about collective solutions. Rather than asking “what’s missing?” we begin with “what do we already have?” to leverage existing strengths to imagine new ecological futures.
July 5, 2026 • Rebecca’s Picks
Check out some of the materials and resources that have helped shape Rebecca’s visions for what could be.
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.
Ologies Podcast by Alie Ward
Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety busters. Beer science. Bee drama. Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -ologists' obsessions. Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions and the answers might change your life.
How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the sea, from gelatinous chains that are both individual organisms and colonies of clones to deep-sea crabs that have no need for the sun, nourished instead by the chemicals and heat throbbing from the core of the Earth. Exploring themes of adaptation, survival, sexuality, and care, and weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family, relationships, and coming of age, How Far the Light Reaches is a shimmering, otherworldly debut that attunes us to new visions of our world and its miracles.